He suddenly took a thousand roubles to our monastery to pay for requiems for the soul of his wife; but not for the second, Alyosha’s mother, the "crazy woman," but for the first, Adelaida Ivanovna, who used to thrash him.

The reading was begun by Father Iosif immediately after the requiem service.

Meanwhile the time was passing; the monastery services and the requiems for the dead followed in their due course.